Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-16
REAL estate.
The Combination Land co,
SPECIAL NO. 4.

1.-The old oligarchy of Greece now abolished
Were Jolly and genial and fond of the arts
Their tastes were refined, their manners were
polished,
But their manner of living affected their
hearts.
They neglected their business they gave
themselves airs,
Read the poets in Greek, supped their
wine, took their rest,
Never troubling their beautiful heads with
And as for their morals-the least said the
best.
The scandal grew greater and greater; and
An appeal to the people was formally made,
The old gods were displaced by the suffrage
And a popular government formed in their
stead"
But time rolls around, and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora and
Crete,
And dozen or more Heathen women whom
you know,
Each finds work at LEucApIA, naming
street.
The Tyre that in Hades once twangcd for
Eurydice
Now praises LEucApIA, Queen of our Coast,
And the lyre tells the truth when it says
ne'er before did see
place where the truth seems lie and
boast.
Where else is a spot where the fig and the
pumpkin
Will grow side by side without water or
care,
And each visitor feel as if he were some kin
To God when he brcathcs the electrical
air?
If a man has II hundred or two hundred
handy,
He will buy lot there, not day will he
wait,
For LEucADIA the lovely, the darling, the
dandy,
Is the brightest and neatest young town in
the state.
For climate, for health, for beauty or bust
ness,
LEUCADIA we praise in Hexameters slow.
Let our readers with spi its clated to dizzi-
ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with bow.
There are hundreds of thousands of acres
of land in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there is only one seaside, and only one
of acres now dry and uncultivated, which
can by labor be changed into garden or
chards.
But there is only one strip of land which
fronts the sea- only one fundamental chord
upon which the surges of ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skirt of translucent beryl
embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this music-room and picture gallery OF the
Deity so attractive as at LEUCADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads. it can make distant acres ac
cessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
with verdure.
But the wealth of Jay Gould could not
bring the iodined healing breath OF ocean to
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley,
or add one yard to the present limited supply
of ocean beach.
We say limited-go TO the map and look
All the seaside north of Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
ocean-side property. The japanese ocean
currerlt-the "Gulf Stream" OF the Pacific,
in its southward journey from Arctic waters
hugs the shore closely from the Straits of
Fuca to Point Conception. The result is
cold Waterloo cold for comfortable bath
ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati-
tude of Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
big tanks where the water is warmed by arti-
fetal heat, and do not bathe in the ocean,
As for Santa Cruz, there is a couplet written
by some shivering pleasure seeker, on the
walls of bath-house there, which couplet ac-
curately expresses the situation.
"Santa Cruz water is like Scotch SNUFF,
One dip and you've got enough
At Point Concepcion-just above Santa
Barbara-the cold, ocean current continues
southward. in a direct course, while the
Coast line defects eastwardly at a sharp
angle, and in few miles the water, under
the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
of the ar real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed" as
Millard Fillmore said when he signed the
Fugitive Slave Law, and as Brigham Young
remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife.
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente,
there is but little coast that is available for
seaside resorts. The beach is too steep for
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
to make bathing either pleasant or safe
while the bluff along the beach is several
hundred feet in height, and cut up with
arroyOs, SO as to make the ocean practically
inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists and
crows.
From Point Vicente to San Pedro there are
probably twenty or thirty miles of available
beach, along which are the towns of Santa
Monica, Ballona. Long Beach, etc.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flats
and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea is
reached. Leaving San Juan, there is no
ground available for seaside resort until
the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed and
Oceanside reached. At Oceanside, the direct
road from Los Angeles to San Diego, now in
process of construction, will connect with
the California Southern Railroad from COL
ton to San Diego. Oceanside lots are held at
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for
lot on the Ocean avenue and five. hundred
dollars for residence lots mile and more
from the beach. South of Oceanside is the
Aqua Hedionda. 1t has several miles of fine
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, he
VIII not sell at any price, and if you annoy
him with an attempt to talk about selling, he
will make the interview as brief as may be
consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls-
bad and it is Il beautiful location, and there
will be large town there, and prices of lots
From Carlsbad south there are lagoons, sand
dunes and broken ground until you reach
the mouth of the San Marcos. From the San
Marcos south to Encenitas is the prettiest site
in the world for an ocean city and Oh this site
is "Leucadia"-the subject OF our sketch
lies in the lap of Paradise: She is the fairest
of all the fair daughters of the sea. She is the
Venus Amphridite of Southern California.
The beach is hard and level: You can drive
is no need of lines for the surf is SO light it
would not upset baby, and there being no
lagoons near there are in consequence no
stingrays. From the edge of the bluff over,
hanging the beach the ground slopes gently
up to the top of the first ridge. then it de
scends gently valley, through which the
railroad runs, then there Is a gradual ascent
to the top of the second ridge Il mile or so
away.
The amazing thing about Leucadia, and in
which il diffprS from every other seaside in
California, is in the wonderful fertility of
its soil. The valley and hill slopes are COW
cred with Fig, Apricot, Eucalyptus and
other trees, and they are green with vine
yards and corn fie DIS.
Leucadia is in process OF preparation for
the market Streets and avenues have been
cleared, graded, staked and named after
Greek deities and personages A drinking
fountain and bath house are being erected
alta white sulphur well on Hygeria avenue
Bath houses on the beach and steps and
grades thereto have been constructed. A
railroad station, after the model OF the Pan
thann has ht1iIt and